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OKLAHOMA RED BOOK 245
CHEROKEE TREATY.
CONCLUDED JULY 8, 1817.
SUMMARY.
Art. I. ( Cession of Eastern Lands to United States.
Art. II. (
Art. III. Providing for a Census of the Cherokee Indians.
Art. IV. Providing for Apportionment of Lands.
Art. V. Defining the Boundary Line of Western Lands exchanged
for the Eastern Cession.
Art. VI. Considerations for Improvements.
Art. VII. Providing for the Cherokee Poor and Decrepit.
Art. VIII. Providing for Descent and Distribution.
Art. IX. Reserving the Right of Free Navigation on Navigable
Streams.
Art. X. Abrogating Certain Treaty Rights of 1806.
Art. XI. Providing for a Boundary Commission.
Art. XII. Providing U. S. Protection from Intrusions until Ratifi­cation
of Treaty.
Art. XIII. Providing for Ratification.
Articles of treaty at the Cherokee Agency, 'within the Cherokee Na­tion,
between Major General Andrew Jackson, Joseph McMinn, Governor
of the State of Tennessee, and General David Merriwether, Commissioners
Plenipotentiary of the United- States of America, of the one part, and
the chiefs, head men, and warriors, of the Cherokee Nation, east of the
Mississippi river and the chiefs, head men, and warriors, of the Chero­kees
on the Arkansas river, and their deputies, John D. Chisholm and
James Rogers, duly authorized by the Chiefs of the Cherokees on the
Arkansas' river ,in open council by written power of attorney, duly signed
and executed, in presence of Joseph Sevier and William Ware.
Whereas, in the autumn of the year one thousand eight hundred and
eight, a deputation from the upper and lower Cherokee towns, duly au­thorized
by their' Nation, went to the City of Washington, the first named
to declare to the President of the United States their anxious desire to
engage in the pursuits of agriculture and civilized life, in the country
they then occupied, and to make known to the President of the United
States the impracticability of inducing the Nation at large to do this,
and to request the establishment of a division line between the upper
and lower towns, so as to include all the waters in the Hiwassee river to
the upper Town, that by thus contracting their society within narrow
limits, they proposed to begin the establishment of fixed laws and a
regular government; the deputies from the lower towns to make known
their desire to continue the hunter life, and also the scarcity of game
where they then lived, and, under those circumstances, their wish to
remove across the Mississippi river on some vacant lands of the United
States. And whereas the President of the United States maturely con­sidering
the petitions of both parties, on the ninth day of January, A. D.

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OKLAHOMA RED BOOK 245
CHEROKEE TREATY.
CONCLUDED JULY 8, 1817.
SUMMARY.
Art. I. ( Cession of Eastern Lands to United States.
Art. II. (
Art. III. Providing for a Census of the Cherokee Indians.
Art. IV. Providing for Apportionment of Lands.
Art. V. Defining the Boundary Line of Western Lands exchanged
for the Eastern Cession.
Art. VI. Considerations for Improvements.
Art. VII. Providing for the Cherokee Poor and Decrepit.
Art. VIII. Providing for Descent and Distribution.
Art. IX. Reserving the Right of Free Navigation on Navigable
Streams.
Art. X. Abrogating Certain Treaty Rights of 1806.
Art. XI. Providing for a Boundary Commission.
Art. XII. Providing U. S. Protection from Intrusions until Ratifi­cation
of Treaty.
Art. XIII. Providing for Ratification.
Articles of treaty at the Cherokee Agency, 'within the Cherokee Na­tion,
between Major General Andrew Jackson, Joseph McMinn, Governor
of the State of Tennessee, and General David Merriwether, Commissioners
Plenipotentiary of the United- States of America, of the one part, and
the chiefs, head men, and warriors, of the Cherokee Nation, east of the
Mississippi river and the chiefs, head men, and warriors, of the Chero­kees
on the Arkansas river, and their deputies, John D. Chisholm and
James Rogers, duly authorized by the Chiefs of the Cherokees on the
Arkansas' river ,in open council by written power of attorney, duly signed
and executed, in presence of Joseph Sevier and William Ware.
Whereas, in the autumn of the year one thousand eight hundred and
eight, a deputation from the upper and lower Cherokee towns, duly au­thorized
by their' Nation, went to the City of Washington, the first named
to declare to the President of the United States their anxious desire to
engage in the pursuits of agriculture and civilized life, in the country
they then occupied, and to make known to the President of the United
States the impracticability of inducing the Nation at large to do this,
and to request the establishment of a division line between the upper
and lower towns, so as to include all the waters in the Hiwassee river to
the upper Town, that by thus contracting their society within narrow
limits, they proposed to begin the establishment of fixed laws and a
regular government; the deputies from the lower towns to make known
their desire to continue the hunter life, and also the scarcity of game
where they then lived, and, under those circumstances, their wish to
remove across the Mississippi river on some vacant lands of the United
States. And whereas the President of the United States maturely con­sidering
the petitions of both parties, on the ninth day of January, A. D.